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LittleBigPlanet 2: PS Vita Cross-Controller Pack Out Today

The wait is finally almost over: the LittleBigPlanet 2: Cross-Controller Pack is out today on PlayStation Store! This all-new pack will allow you to use your PS Vita as a controller on LittleBigPlanet 2 and play the game in a new and exciting way. Check out the new trailer for the LittleBigPlanet 2: Cross-Controller pack to see just what adventures Sackboy will be getting up to in this new pack!

Not only will you be able to play through Sackboy’s grand new adventure, we’ll also be giving you a brand new set of tools and other goodies to enable you to make your very own LittleBigPlanet 2: Cross-Controller levels!

What’s in the LittleBigPlanet 2: Cross-Controller Pack?

Sackboy’s latest adventure is chock full of a wonderful array of goodies that we know you all can’t wait to hear to find out about, so here’s a rundown of just what you’ll be getting.

A Brand New Story – Our new theme will see Sackboy travelling across the Omniverse to discover the lost treasure!

Five Costumes – Sackboy will be fully kitted out for his new adventure with five brand new costumes! Don’t forget about our Cross-Buy Costumes! If you purchase this pack, these costumes will also work on LittleBigPlanet PS Vita and will become available in LittleBigPlanet Karting in a future update!

Four New Tools – The Worm Hole, the Vitanator, the Remote Tag Sensor and the Tag Radar are all available to help you create your own Cross-Controller experience.

Creative Goodies – 26 Objects, 25 Materials, 74 Decorations, 148 Stickers, three Interactive Music Tracks and one Background are all waiting to be picked up by your Sackboy to add to their Popit to help fulfil their creative needs.

Five Tutorials – Finishing up the Cross-Controller Pack, we have five brand new tutorials all voiced by LittleBigPlanet’s favourite narrator, Stephen Fry. These should really help you get to grips with the new tools and Sackboy’s headfirst dive into Cross-Controller gameplay!

What is a Worm Hole?

The Worm Hole is Sackboy’s brilliant new teleportation tool that will enable him to travel safely from one Worm Hole to another within the same level without fear of losing a life.

This handy new tool will even allow Sackboy to teleport from your PS3 to your PS Vita and vice-versa, should you want him to return home. The most intuitive and creative level designers will even be able to use the tool to remove Sackboy from gameplay and effectively lock him in a state of stasis whilst action is taking place elsewhere in the level…However we’ll leave it up to you and Sackboy to discover just what potential his new Worm Hole discovery holds for LittleBigPlanet and the rest of the Omniverse!

Head into the Unexplored Cosmos Today

Sackboy has his brand new mission, so head on over to the Store today and you can pick up the LittleBigPlanet 2: Cross-Controller Pack, available for the PS3 for $4.99. Just a friendly reminder, you will need a PS3, PS Vita and a copy of LittleBigPlanet 2 for the new DLC pack. If you don’t already have a copy of LBP 2, there are a couple of easy ways to pick up a copy at a really great value. It’s currently a free PSN download for all PS Plus members, and starting today it will also be available for $13.99 as part of the Holiday Essentials Sale on PlayStation Store until December 24th.

Help Sackboy save the day in his new adventure and then use your newly collected goodies to create your own levels, we cannot wait to see just what kind of Cross-Controller adventures that our creative community can design!

The waiting is the hardest part. Being on the East coast they might as well just wait till Wednesday to update the store. Maybe someday in the future they can have the updates a little sooner in the day. Get everything ready the day before that way they can just pop the switch so to speak and make us all happier, or even put in a countdown timer till the update posts.

I am having trouble as well.. I go into the Cross Controller option in LBP2, and then follow the instructions to connect on my Vita..the Vita just sits there and doesnt find anything. Obviously they are connected to the same network, and the Vita is even paired with the PS3 (not relevant just letting you know). I am disappointed with this experience so far.

I’m rebooting Vita and PS3 fully. How long did it take for it to recognize your Vita? It’s still not finding anything. On the Vita, I see the WiFi connection at top, and there is a spinning circle right next to it that just keeps spinning. I’ve verified all requirements are installed, all firmware is up to date.

8PM East coast and Cross-controller is still not working for me, either. I have payed for the content and installed it on my PS3. I click on the Cross-Controller option in the pod and follow on-screen instructions. I have rebooted PS3 and Vita numerous times, left the Vita for a few minutes to see if it would ever make a connection and it never does. I’m not sure what the problem is, but from what I’m seeing across the internet, this feature is not working, nor are there any explanations as to why that is.

Same problems here. I even unpaired my Vita from the Remote Play section totally, added it again, and Remote Play works perfectly, so I know I am making a proper network connection. Just stuck at step 1 of 3.

is there the option to activate remote play under system settings on both PS3 & Vita ? I have mine downloaded, but haven’t installed yet b/c I have other things downloading still ….Dokuro on the Vita is 50% off …. so grabbed that as well, was a nice surprise. hope my cross controller bundle works easily …

I started having problems as well, all I can say is be patient. I restarted both systems, the game, and my internet, and the first time it actually connected it took a couple of minutes (then disconnected me when the download started) after a couple more tries the download seems to be moving smoothly.
I just urge everyone to be patient and keep trying, and it should eventually work.

hopefully sony will be able to allow this kind of connection through USB in the next update. I feel like that would be much less prone to connection issues.

I also noticed that when I was playing the regular controller has to be connected the whole time you play with the vita. so if you have it set to automatically turn off it stops and asks you to connect your controller.

Downloaded all the packs on both systems. Restarted everything. Waiting for connection on vita cross controller then clicked LBP2 cross controller. It instantly found the Vita but fails while “downloading”. Also if I try again after canceling it no longer finds the vita without LBP2 reboot.

Got the pack earlier. Beat it and I loved it! Its tons of fun to play with and includes more than what we were told. 4 Main levels,3 cut scenes,3 bonus levels (I think) Tons of new game changing items and A NEW MOON AND EARTH! Its like a whole new game! There’s even a separate community for it so no Cross-Controller can mix in with your vita levels. Plus the game is a separate app. (YOU DON’T NEED TO KEEP CROSS-CONTROLLER OPEN ON REMOTE PLAY! YOU CAN LEAVE IT AND IT KEEPS DOWNLOADING BECAUSE ITS A SEPARATE APP!)
You guys did a great job and you can tell a lot of effort has been put into this piece of art. 9.5/10!

I just want to make sure I’m not missing a step…I downloaded add on to ps3 and connected my vita to the ps3 and using content manager I’m trying to copy add on to vita…did I miss something because it won’t even copy the add on to my vita

I’m now downloading the cross controller file coming in at 468mb (forealsies??). Did the vita update started LBP2 back up with vita waiting on cross controller connect screen, clicked cross controller on LBP2, found vita then waited a few seconds and started downloading. Now I play the waiting game on this end. For reference I use old slim ps3.